S. Maki Uchiyama

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S. Maki Uchiyama focuses her practice on matters pertaining to real estate and financial services. She has particular experience in the acquisition, development and financing of office, retail and industrial properties; leasing; structured credit financing; and foreclosures and distressed loans.

Prior to joining Buchanan, Maki served as vice president for the second-largest special servicer of distressed CMBS loans, where she headed the team responsible for compliance and reporting requirements. Some of Maki’s representative experience includes:

Representing an institutional lender in making construction, acquisition and syndicated loans for projects in the mid-Atlantic region.

Representing several regional banks in making construction loans and other commercial and real estate financings for projects in the mid-Atlantic region.

Representing a full service real estate company with property acquisitions, financings and leasing for office, multifamily and industrial properties in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Represented a large non-profit charitable trust in its sale of a Class A office building located in Washington, D.C.

Represented a mid-Atlantic lender in its financing to a third party purchaser of a CMBS loan which was secured by nine industrial properties located in Prince George’s County, MD.

Maki is recognized by Chambers USA as a leading real estate lawyer in Washington, D.C. in 2018 and was praised for her client-focused approach from 2015-2016. Maki is conversant in Japanese.